How much time do you spend recording music you don't like?

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"Doc" <docsavage20@xhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Fletcher" <Fletcher.1nsk1n@audiobanter.com> wrote in message
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>> You're not there to "like the music", you're there to translate
>> variations in air pressure to a storage medium in a manner that pleases
>> your client... much in the way that a Gynacologist isn't going to turn
>> away work because the client isn't a "Victoria Secret" model, we don't
>> turn away work because we don't particularly care for the music... or
>> at least we shouldn't.
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> I'd rather be beaten with a chain than listen to rap, and various other
> "styles" aren't far behind to me. About 98% of the time I switch or mute
> the
> channel on SNL when they have their musical segments. I just never got
> into
> the music a lot of my peers did. It's unfathomable to me that anyone ever
> actually paid money to hear Kiss, Nirvana, whoever the hell that band is
> on
> the Toyota Camry commercial where the son is trying to convince his dad he
> didn't take it out the night before and gets busted when his dad plays the
> radio, etc. I can't imagine being immersed in something I can't stand for
> the amount of time it would take to record/edit/mix it. Besides, I would
> think if I feel outright contempt or indifference to the music, surely
> it's
> going to show.
>
> It's funny when some bunch of headbangers is on one of the Late Night talk
> shows and the host has to force out a vacant "hey guys that was great" and
> you can tell it ain't his cup 'o tea.
>
So, do you make your living recording music? It is a serious question. My
commercial studio experience was in studios with 15 to 30 employees. The
staff and their families depended on the owners to provide a salary every
two weeks. We didn't have the luxury of choosing our clients according to
each engineer's musical tastes. I'm with Fletcher on this one, who said, in
effect, the engineer's job is to capture the sounds the clients create in a
way that pleases the client.

Steve King

 

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"Steve King" <steve@TakeThisOutToReplysteveking.net> wrote in message
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> So, do you make your living recording music? It is a serious question.

See the title of the thread and the original post.

 

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"Doc" <docsavage20@xhotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> So, do you make your living recording music? It is a serious question.
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> See the title of the thread and the original post.
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Sorry. I read it but forgot. Yes, you would have a difficult time.

Steve King

 

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In article <tK2dnf3qrd8QJPrfRVn-gg@comcast.com>,
Steve King <steve@TakeThisOutToReplysteveking.net> wrote:

>So, do you make your living recording music? It is a serious question. My
>commercial studio experience was in studios with 15 to 30 employees. The
>staff and their families depended on the owners to provide a salary every
>two weeks. We didn't have the luxury of choosing our clients according to
>each engineer's musical tastes.

Well, there's "tastes" and then there's where you draw the line.

Some might do any gig whatsoever to pay the bills (and they might need
to). But do you have to draw the line somewhere? A photo studio might
draw the line for porn work. Or they might just draw it at "tasteless
porn". An internet provider might be willing to keep subscribers that
spam or do tasteless websites, or they might not.

There's gotta be a line like this for music recording. You don't
*really* take any client with any material, just because they can pay,
do you? I understand if you *do*, because I realize this is a hungry
business.

 

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Just roped into a great example of this.

Regularly record an audition-only youth orchestra with fine talent. Love
recording their concerts.

Every year they do a gala fund raiser. Recorded in a ballroom full of
people eating supper and talking. Recording a group only half-rehearsed
and uncaring of performance values ("Why worry? They aren't listening
anyway."). I spend days turd polishing.

I have to record the fund raiser to get to record the good concerts.

 

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On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:05:10 GMT, "Doc" <docsavage20@xhotmail.com>
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>Mommy was concerned about price and asked questions like "well, what if it's
>just a little bit of orchestra". She never could quite explain what she
>meant. I explained that I had to know exactly what they wanted to tell them
>how much. That besides the huge amount of time it would take for me to do
>the orchestrations then turn them into actual tracks off midi, it also
>mattered whether they wanted me to be the one who actually recorded her and
>mixed/mastered the whole thing or just create the tracks and wish them good
>luck. I tried to explain the process to her in as fundamental terms as
>possible but I don't think much of it sank in. I never heard back from them.

I thought they wanted an orchestra? What's this midi thing?